| TENNISSHOE | Generic term in much of the US for what people in the northeast typically call a sneaker |
| CANTALOUPE | Generic term in the US for several varieties of cultivated melon (10) |
| LYCRA | Spandex is the preferred name in the US for what product? (5) |
| BALANCES | Makes up for what people have at the bank? (8) |
| COUNTENANCES | Provides approval for what people are faced with (12) |
| REAGAN | Who was the president of the US for the majority of the 1980s? (6) |
| LAX | Busiest airport on the West Coast of the US for short |
| ANNA | *First Lady of the US for only one month |
| OLDMASTER | A generic term for a great artist of former times, especially in the Renaissance (3,6) |
| NOANSWER | Name used in the US for the Electric Light Orchestra's debut album, as a result of misunderstood phone call records |
| NARCO | A slang term in the US for an agent who enforces laws on the illicit production of drugs (5) |
| POP | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| SODA | Generic term for a carbonated beverage, in certain parts of the U.S. |
| STANLEY | US tool-making company whose name has become a generic term for a type of knife (7) |
| NOCONTEST | Alternative legal term, especially in the US, for nolo contendere, in which a defendant accepts a charge without admitting guilt (2,7) |
| EMMY | Statuette of a winged woman holding an atom, awarded annually in the US for outstanding work in tele |
| IRISHREPUBLIC | In a manner of speaking, describes the US for example as a free state (5,8) |
| GLEECLUB | A society in the US for the singing of choral music (4,4) |
| NICKEL | Cost of a bottle of Coke in the US for 73 years (6) |
| GARFIELD | President of the USA for only a few months in 1881 (8) |
